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J. DOTY.

V CORNER IRON. v No. 380,871. 8 Patented Apr. 10, 1888.

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JOSEPH DOTY, OF WVELLSVILLE; NEW YORK.

CQRNER-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,871, dated April 10, 1888.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH DOTY, of Wellsville, in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Corner-Iron, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in the mode of constructing the corners of carriage'bodies, carriage-seats, and other structures in which two or more boards are required to meet at any angle and be firmly attached to form a corner either round, square, oblique, or

angular.

Theinvention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a corner constructed in accordance withmy improvement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line x x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line y y of Fig. 2.

Square and angular corners have heretofore chiefly been formed by mitering and nailing the boards together, and round corners by steaming boards of certain varieties of wood and bending them as required. Corners made in this wise are insecure and open upon the first severe strain.

In the construction of round corners as at present only a limited variety of woods can be employed as set forth above, and expensive formers and other appliances are necessary in the manipulation of the woods. By reason of these facts the bodies of vehicles and vehicleseats requiring round corners cannot be made in small shops and must be purchased from large firms making a specialty of such work.

It is the prime object of this invention to overcome the difficulties above set forth and provide a means whereby any ordinary skilled mechanic may join two boards of any kind of wood and of anylength or thickness and form a corner, either round, square, or angular,that shall be firm, neat, and durable and at a minimum cost, and also wherein all the plugging and puttying of screw-heads or nail-heads so with the longitudinal edges of the body.

common in all mitered structures will be dispensed with.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a metallic corner, which, while represented as semicircular, may be made of any desired shape, and preferably of either cast" or wrought iron. Parallel with each longitudinal edge a of the body A, and a distance therefrom, a rib, B, is cast, which ribs project inward sufliciently to bring their edges in the same plialille e major portion of the ribs is at angle to the body of the corner-iron, as shown in Fig. 8, the inner edges, 1), of the said ribs being bent outward in the direction of longitudinal edges of the body A, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and by dotted lines, Fig. 3. Thus a mortise, N, is formed at each side of theiron, adapted to receive, rcspectively, one end of the boards to bejoined and to firmly clamp the same. The

" ribs B do not extend the entire length of the body, but terminate a distance from the bottom, where they are united by a horizontal transverse partition, I), which partition is provided with a central integral reduced projection, d. Parallel with the aforesaid partition D, and integral with the end of the body A, a similar partition, D, is formed, between which partition D and D the bottom board or boards of the structure are held. Near the top an inwardly-beveled recess, 6, is cut in the flange b of the ribs to receive the ends of the girt adapted to support the seat. At the top of the corner-iron the ribs B are connected by a cap, E, provided with a circular aperture, E, whereby a socket is formed for the reception of a whip, or stakes to be used in connection with additional side-boards, or for the standards of a canopy-top or equivalent structure.

In constructing the corncrof avehicle-body, for instance, the side and end boards, M M,are inserted in the respective mortises b and held therein by screws entered through the ribs, or in any other approved manner. The bottom board or boards, M being held between thepartitions D and D, preferably by bolts pass ing through the same, the girts N are secured to the side and end boards of the body at proper distance from the upper edge, terminating, respectively, in the recesses e, as illustrated.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. A corner-iron consisting of a body having longitudinal side mortises, spaced partitions at the lower end, and an apertured cap, substantially as set forth.

2. A corner-iron consisting of a body, 1ongitudinal ribs integral with said body near the outer edges and provided with an outwardly-inclined flange, a horizontal partition connecting the ribs at the bottom, a parallel horizontal partition forming the base of the body and spaced from the partition connecting the ribs, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. A corner-iron consisting of a body, 10ngitudinal ribs integral with said body near the outer edges and provided with an outwardly-inclined flan ge, whereby sid e mortise-s areformed, ahorizontal partition connecting the ribs at the bottom, a parallel horizontal partition forming the base of the body and spaced from the partition connecting the ribs and a cap-plate integral with the body,and ribs at the top provided with a central circular aperture forming a socket, all combined as and for the purpose herein set forth.

JOSEPH DOTY. WVitnesses:

E. LEROY Bren, TIMOTHY J. DWIRE. 

